CVE-2026-74659

net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire

N/A
Published: August 22, 2026 at 03:32 PM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 01:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire br_mrp_alloc_test_skb() builds MRP test frames on an skb from dev_alloc_skb(), which does not clear the linear data area. On the MRA ring-role branch the sub-option TLV header is appended with sub_tlv = skb_put(skb, sizeof(*sub_tlv)); sub_tlv->type = BR_MRP_SUB_TLV_HEADER_TEST_AUTO_MGR; so sub_tlv->length is never written, and the two trailing alignment bytes are appended with a bare skb_put() that does not clear them either. The neighbouring oui and sub_opt regions are explicitly zeroed, so three uninitialised bytes are left in every MRA MRP_Test frame that goes out. Put the sub-option TLV header and the alignment padding in a single skb_put_zero(), which clears both. The AUTO_MGR sub-TLV carries no payload, so the zeroed length field is already the value it should have.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.14f7458934b0791c39a001e4d902fc3bf697b439b5
Vendor states this is fixed in 014c062d23c63ec77ef2cf17a0d9363c7441cc94 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 06d58b8d2f053ced82e01efaeb6e7c82891eed58 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5912cf1822fbe53ae275c147868740eb384a5d3e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 63488dba65ef91373ef616575b32eb0eb21459f4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7ebc23ff03668042e0b0e4034bb1518d36198d9e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a5e385eeb2d6dbbbdebfa050e67c34734ae12693 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e08665218040f8e312abe40f74543186f3c2c941 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.104 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.45 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.152 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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